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Myanmar Prime Minister Min Aung Hlaing has called for cooperation between ministries to increase the production of domestic solar panels and to expand the industrial use of solar energy.
Hlaing, who also acts as chairman of the State Administration and Senior General, visited a factory in the solar panel in the Yangon Administrative Region in Central Myanmar last week. His visit included inspections from other industrial facilities in the region, including a tire factory and two steel factories.
In the Solar Panel Factory, owned by Shwe Katha Co. Ltd., Hlaing urged producers to match the quality of imported panels with locally made products.
According to a statement from the Ministry of Information by Myanmar, HLAING also emphasized the need to generate solar energy on both manageable and commercial scales to support factories and encourage broader acceptance.
“The ministry must strive to generate electricity through solar energy to guarantee small-scale electricity for domestic use and large-scale electricity for factory use,” said the explanation. “That is why the Ministry of Electric Stream and the Ministry of Industry must work together in the development of the production of solar panels.”
HLAING also called for domestic production of important raw materials used in solar panels and urged officials to start with silicone production in Myanmar.
The installed solar capacity of Myanmar reached 216 MW towards the end of 2024, an increase of 181 MW in 2023, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena).
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